Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
With Valentine’s Day festivities going on throughout Union City, many senior citizens were in good spirits and enjoying time with their loved ones last week. Pedro and Maria Flores have been married almost 45 years and were out and about on the weekend. “It doesn’t have to be Valentine’s Day for us to say we …
The annual Roosevelt School Science Fair was coming, and all of the school’s fifth and sixth graders had to think of topics for interesting presentations. Their creative minds were definitely hard at work. Stephanie Orru constantly kept hearing her mother complain about the rusted gate in front of her house. Bingo. The sixth grader decided …
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About a decade ago, the idea of beginning a business along the Weehawken side of Park Avenue wasn’t exactly a popular idea. Many of the long-standing stores in the neighborhood were gone, a thing of the past. “You go back eight or nine years, and there were a bunch of empty stores,” Weehawken Mayor Richard …
Continue reading “Two new stores just the beginning for Weehawken’s main thoroughfare”
Between President’s Day and the primaries, the presidency is in the air. As candidates bicker back and forth about abortion rights, tax breaks and welfare reform, and pundits struggle to discern which politician is the alpha male of the week, we thought we would look back to simpler times – or maybe not. The Kennedy …
Continue reading “Who’s your favorite president? Decades after his death, everyone loves Kennedy”
In what has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the new freeholder board, Neil Carroll – formerly freeholder pro tempore in 1999 – has been appointed chief-of-staff to the Hudson County Board of Freeholders. The position will pay Carroll the same $31,000 per year that he was earning as a freeholder before deciding not …
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At the Feb. 8 meeting of the Board of Freeholders, board chairman Sal Vega named who will serve of various committees. The following were the appointments: ? High School of Technology, Vega and Freeholder Maurice Fitzgibbons. ? Community College, freeholders Bill Braker and Nidia Davila-Colon ? Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Board, Vega ? Contract Review, …
John Shinnick was re-elected to his third term as chairman of the Hudson County Improvement Authority at their Feb. 9 reorganization meeting. Shinnick, who has served with the HCIA since 1997, expressed his desire to continue the progress in maintaining one of the lowest solid waste disposal costs in Northern New Jersey and promoting environmental …
“Even on what people might call routine calls, firefighters are at risk,” says Councilman John Reilly, steering his car through traffic along Paterson Plank Road from the northend in response to report of a house fire. The blue firefighter light flashes from dozens of other vehicles in Secaucus as other volunteers scurry out from their …
Continue reading “Firefighters and police get a doctor of their own”
Hudson Reporter Boys’ H.S. Basketball Top Five 1. St. Anthony (11-3) 2. St. Peter’s Prep (12-2) 3. Union Hill (14-2) 4. Dickinson (12-3) 5. Memorial (12-5) Hudson Reporter Girls’ H.S. Basketball Top Five 1. St. Dominic Academy (9-5) 2. North Bergen (9-4) 3. Marist (8-6) 4. Secaucus (10-4) 5. Memorial (6-8)
Steve Howard doesn’t ever remember feeling like there was anything different about him, despite being born with only a left leg. While growing up in downtown Jersey City, he tried to be like every other child in the neighborhood – participating in sports, especially basketball. But it was never anything he took seriously. Just a …
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